Integration with vBulletin - Zoints Thread Tags - GREAT for SEO

Demo:

http://network.zoints.com/tags

If you choose to send tags to Zoints (optional) you can see what we do with them and how we send you traffic and nice inbound links: http://zoints.com

A great article on the importance of tagging can be read here.

The Zoints Thread Tags System will improve forum side search, SEO, and traffic for forums that choose to utilize it. And in my opinion, it's just plain cool

When a member creates a new thread, they can now input a series of "tags". Tags are simply keywords that describe the thread.



If you then go to your-forum.com/tags you will be presented with what is called a "tag cloud". The more times a tag is used, the larger the text grows. As you can see, the tags are also searchable.



Clicking on one of the tags in the cloud then lists all of the threads that are tagged with that particular keyword. The default option lists tags in a forumdisplay format. There is an option in the admincp to use a simple format.



Clicking on the thread title of one of the above threads then takes you to the thread. If you have the option on, the tags the thread are tagged with are also listed above the thread. Clicking one of those tags takes you to all the threads on the forum tagged with the same tag. Search engine spiders are going to have a field day with this



The thread starter and moderation staff have a slightly different view which allows for administration of tags:



The forum's tags are also searchable via the search dropdown. The advanced search option allows for a variety of additional criteria to be seached for. Your members create a whole new (and highly efficient) forum search engine!



If you have the option on in the admincp and register your forum, once every hour, your tagged threads in publically viewable forums are linked via the corresponding interest tag on the Zoints Forum Network. For example, if you go to http://zoints.com/tag/children you will see what is pictured below. Not only is this a great relevant inbound link for SEO, but you will get traffic from Zoints direct to these threads!

Another example of this in action: http://zoints.com/tag/music




The admincp options

















Official support for this modification will be at http://network.zoints.com in this forum.


Change log:
2008/05/01 - 1.2.3
* vBulletin CSRF Protocol Compatible
2007/12/24 - 1.2.2
* Security patch

2006/10/24 - 1.2.1
* Bugfix: breaking inline moderation when tag cloud below posts
* Bugfix: ajax input not working when tag cloud below posts
* Bugfix: seo hook effective for "results as threads" option
* Bugfix: Autogenerated tags have "quot" removed
* Bugfix: Automated template edit screwing up styles
* Improved instructions for manual template edits

2006/10/19 - 1.2.0
* Option to display results as threads
* Advanced search page
* Popular tag cloud pagination
* Popular tags displayed in forums
* Option to display tags in showthread at the top/bottom
* Fix for vbadvanced products navbar links
* Other minor fixes and tweaks

2006/10/02 - 1.1.2
* Bugfix: Foreign language characters in thread description
* Bugfix: Commas showing up when removing first tag in showthread via ajax
* Removing some redundancy in the tags AJAX removal

2006/09/30 - 1.1.1
* Bugfix: Preventing all HTML from being parsed inside tag descriptions

2006/09/30 - 1.1.0
* Adding and deleting tags from showthread via AJAX
* Mass-deleting single tags from entire cloud for admins
* Automatically generate tags for older threads (with option to show or hide on main cloud)
* Automatically stripping out tiny (2 or less characters) tags

2006/09/28 - 1.0.8
* Minor bugfix

2006/09/28 - 1.0.7
* Bugfix for required tagging

2006/09/28 - 1.0.6
* Character replacements
* Tag limit per thread
* Option to require tags for a thread
* Bugfix where stopwords may not have worked properly
* Bugfix for vBSEO / main cloud not showing up

2006/09/xx - 1.0.5
* Unreleased dev build

2006/09/23 - 1.0.4
* Ability to add multiple tags via showthread.php
* Ability to exclude certain forums from utilizing tags
* Addition of custom hook for developers to change thread urls

2006/09/21 - 1.0.3
* Ability to add and remove tags from showthread.php
* Bugfix for older versions of mysql

2006/09/21 - 1.0.2
* Small bugfix

2006/09/20 - 1.0.1
* Showing tags list on showthread.php

2006/09/20 - 1.0.0
* Initial release

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Hi io, please search for this, you should find it:

<input name="s" type="hidden" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

I am not on 3.610 with my forums but try it out, I am sure that is what was meant by it.
- Reid

[futuredood]

soo has anyone been able to add tag clouds to the forumhome?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by futuredood

soo has anyone been able to add tag clouds to the forumhome?

Hi there dood,

We're gearing up to release another modification this week, but we have had a beta version of tags floating around for quite some time with that feature. I would expect on the next update to Thread Tags that this will be included. I can't guarantee it, but there is a very good chance.

If you have vB Advanced, you can search out a module for tags that allows you to have it on your portal.

- Reid

[AyeCapn]

how do I uninstall this mod from 3.7.2? I am going to rely on the vB tag system. I get SQL errors after running the uninstall:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.1:

Invalid SQL:

                       SELECT COUNT(*) count FROM reuzoints_tag zoints_tag
                       LEFT JOIN reuthread thread ON(zoints_tag.threadid = thread.threadid)
                       WHERE zoints_tag.tag = 'holders'
                               AND thread.forumid IN(26,2,59,42,1,3,67,9,10,23,8,64,15,12,4,16,11,41,40,71,43,44,45,46,47,74,48,70,72,14,13,75,66,68,76,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,17,57,18,20,22);

MySQL Error   : Table 'blah_blah.reuzoints_tag' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Wednesday, June 25th 2008 @ 03:08:04 PM
Error Date    : Wednesday, June 25th 2008 @ 03:08:04 PM
Script        : http://www.myforum.org/forum/tags/index.php?tag=/holders/
Referrer      :
IP Address    : 74.6.22.120
Username      : Unregistered
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by AyeCapn

how do I uninstall this mod from 3.7.2? I am going to rely on the vB tag system. I get SQL errors after running the uninstall:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.1:

Invalid SQL:

                       SELECT COUNT(*) count FROM reuzoints_tag zoints_tag
                       LEFT JOIN reuthread thread ON(zoints_tag.threadid = thread.threadid)
                       WHERE zoints_tag.tag = 'holders'
                               AND thread.forumid IN(26,2,59,42,1,3,67,9,10,23,8,64,15,12,4,16,11,41,40,71,43,44,45,46,47,74,48,70,72,14,13,75,66,68,76,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,17,57,18,20,22);

MySQL Error   : Table 'blah_blah.reuzoints_tag' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Wednesday, June 25th 2008 @ 03:08:04 PM
Error Date    : Wednesday, June 25th 2008 @ 03:08:04 PM
Script        : http://www.myforum.org/forum/tags/index.php?tag=/holders/
Referrer      :
IP Address    : 74.6.22.120
Username      : Unregistered
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

If those messages are coming by email, as opposed to you yourself seeing them when browsing the forums, then what's probably happening is that people are finding links to your site in Zoints tag format on Google, but when they click them, they generate a database error as you've uninstalled the modification.

I have been thinking about this issue for if I ever moved to the built in tags, and I reckon the only way to solve this without having dead links in search engines would be to keep Zoints Tags installed but edit the templates/plugins so that the tag boxes etc don't show up. That way all new tags would be done via the vB system, but any old Zoints tags links in Google etc would still work.

After a time Google should start indexing the new tag links and then you'd be able to fully uninstall.

Possibly an alternative might be some kind of mod rewrite but it'd be messy, if it was even possible.

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Mark is correct. If you are getting that through email notifications of errors, then likely that is what is happening. Zoints Thread Tags were designed to help with your SEO efforts and on any decently large site, those tag pages often get indexed and Google will check for them later. Based on our understanding of it, there is not much we can help you with in that regard.

- Reid

[Darat]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

...snip...

I have been thinking about this issue for if I ever moved to the built in tags, and I reckon the only way to solve this without having dead links in search engines would be to keep Zoints Tags installed but edit the templates/plugins so that the tag boxes etc don't show up. That way all new tags would be done via the vB system, but any old Zoints tags links in Google etc would still work.

...snip...

This is exactly what I have done - we'd been using Zoints tags since it was released so it has been well indexed by the various search engines. Overall I've been quite pleased with Zoints tags but I always prefer, if at all possible, to use a built-in version of a feature so I decided to move over to the built-in version. (I still prefer Zoints tags, if I was rating it I'd give it a 7 out of 10 for ease of use and features and the built-in one only a 5.)

I've stripped Zoints tags out of all the templates and removed all direct links to it but left it working in the background and it appears to work fine, old indexed links via Zoints tags are still valid so no page errors.

[SBlueman]

It's been over a year since I started looking for answers on this on this site and Zoints support forum and I still can't find any answers. Can anyone help?

I am looking to accomplish the following:

1. Have RSS feeds for topic tags. I know of a similar modification that has RSS feeds for topic tag searches. (Boardtracker Advanced Topic Tags)

2. Display the correct post icon in the tag search results page (example: http://gridironfans.com/forums/tags/index.php/49ers/)

[abdobasha2004]

I have an arabic forum
Does it works on arabic tags?

[abdobasha2004]

plz help me to run this hack on arabic forums using windows-1256 language